This exhibition celebrates 35 years of the Harn Museum of Art with photographs new to the collection. The museum’s hundreds of exhibitions and educational programs have fed hearts and minds for over three decades of immense change.
In the last two years, more than 150 photographs have entered the Harn’s permanent photography collection as museum purchases or as gifts from local and national collectors and artists. The Harn at 35 celebrates this new abundance with approximately 70 images exhibited for the first time at the Harn by noted photographers such as Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, Jamel Shabazz, James Nachtwey and Sarah Sense. The artists’ subject matter addresses history, memory, identity, innovation, dreaming, war, the environment, family and joy.
Two themes define The Harn at 35: an appreciation of supporters who have kept the museum vital, and a celebration of the many ideas photography serves in the hands of artists. And, along with the curator’s texts, there are eight insightful UF-Gainesville photography enthusiasts who chose an inspiring photographer from this exhibition and wrote about them.
